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Earhart lifts off from Los Angeles alone, aiming for Newark without a stop

Three months after crossing the Atlantic solo, she points her red Vega east across the whole continent.

By the summer of 1932, Amelia Earhart had already crossed the Atlantic alone and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for it. On August 24, she climbed into her red Lockheed Vega 5B in Los Angeles and took off headed east, alone, with no stops planned before Newark. Roughly 24 hours later she set down in Newark, New Jersey, the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States by herself…

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More from August 24

Smoke rises over Washington as British troops torch the Capitol and the President's Mansion

Madison flees to Maryland while Dolley Madison's staff carries out the silver as British soldiers sit down to the dinner meant for his guests.

Saratoga's bombers catch the Ryūjō; the carrier goes down after dark

Three to five bombs and a torpedo cripple the Japanese flattop near Santa Isabel Island as the fleets close for battle.

The North Atlantic Treaty takes effect; twelve nations are now bound to defend each other

Four months after the signing in Washington, Article 5's promise becomes binding law.

Captain Raymond Dronne defies the plan to bypass the city and becomes the first French officer back inside its walls.

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50 nations sign the United Nations Charter in San Francisco

China signs first, as the nation that bore Axis aggression longest; delegates from all 50 Allied powers file through the Herbst Theatre to add their names.

The Dow closes at 41.22; ninety cents of every dollar are gone

Three summers of selling, and still no floor in sight.

Saipan falls to Smith's Marines and infantry; Japan's inner defense ring is broken

Twenty-four days through caves, cane fields, and Tapotchau's slopes: 3,100 Americans dead, 13,000 wounded, and roughly 30,000 Japanese killed.

Navy pilot spots a downed Zero on Akutan Island; the U.S. has its first intact enemy fighter

Bill Thies, flying a PBY, finds Petty Officer Koga's crashed Zero upside down in the mud, a month after it went down during the Dutch Harbor attack.

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